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March 17, 2007

Where Will It Go?

Summer Student Fellow Tomasso Ascarelli (from the University of Rome)
and WHOI Senior Scientist
Jack Whitehead (foreground right) examine the flow of dye in a
fluid dynamics experiment. The blue fluiddyed salt
waterwas injected onto a sloping white
bottom in the rotating tank in the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Laboratory. Working with Whitehead and WHOI
Associate Scientist Claudia Cenedese (not pictured), Ascarelli studied
the behavior of density currents on sloping surfaces in the tank in
order to better understand the large density currents (sometimes called
"streamtubes" or "cataracts") in the real ocean. (Photo by Tom Kleindinst, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)